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Gbmodeler

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  1. Amistad Schooner, 1839

    Scratch built 1:96 scale model of the infamous Amistad slave ship.  A basswood solid hull was carved and planked with basswood strips.  Basswood deck; bamboo masts and spars; and thin copper sheet were used.  The brick works are paper card.  I built this in the late 1990s, but do not think I have ever displayed it before.
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  2. U.S. Mine Sweeping Boat (MSB) 6, 1952

    This is a scratch-built model  of a 57' wooden mine sweeping boat from the 1950s, in 1:96 scale.  About 50 of these boats were constructed and used in Korea and Viet Nam.  My father served on MSB 6, out of Charleston, SC in the early 1950s.     A build log is on this site at  https://modelshipworld.com/topic/32325-msb-6-by-gbmodeler-196-scale-1952-united-states-mine-sweeping-boat/
     
     
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  3. Light Vessel 114, Fire Island

    Light Vessel 114 was built in Portland, Oregon and launched in 1930.  It was stationed about nine miles off Long Island, New York, lighting the path to New York City and supplementing the Fire Island Lighthouse.  It remained on that station until 1942.  After that, it served on several other stations until being decommissioned in 1971.  It was scraped in 2007.
     
    The 1/93 scale model was based on Lindberg's "Nantucket" lightship plastic kit with scratch-built deck houses, smoke stack, rails, and other fittings, to conform with photographs of the original vessel in 1930.
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  4. Zephyr Steam Boat - Puget Sound, Late 1800's

    This is a 1:96 scale model of the steamboat "Zephyr" which worked around Seattle, Washington.  Plans were drawn off photos of the actual boat, scaled from a man seen on the deck and assumed to be about 5'10" tall.  I built this model in the late 1990s but never posted it before.  The model is basswood planking on a solid, carved hull.
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  5. Misainier - French Fishing Boat, 1906

    This  is  a 1/48 scale model of a six meter (20 foot) Misainier fishing boat from 1906 named "Mirabeau."  The Misainier was an important feature of the French Atlantic Coast in the early part of the   20th century.   These little boats were usually 4 to   8 meters long,  single masted, lug rigged, and built by   individual s without formal plans.  Hundreds plied the coastal fishing grounds of Brittany until the mid 1900s.  A build log can be viewed at:  https://modelshipworld.com/topic/27766-misainier-by-gbmodeler-small-french-fishing-boat-of-the-early-1900s/
     
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  6. 1870 Scottish Fifie by GBModeler

    This is a 1:48 scale model from the lines of an 1860 Fifie herring drifter found in "Sailing Drifters" by Edgar J. March, 1952, Percival Marshall & Company Ltd, London.  The hull was reduced proportionately from a 52-foot boat as shown in the book, to about 43 feet LOA.  Historical photos and contemporary photos of surviving boats were used to adjust lines and details in the model, which is built as a fictional boat circa 1870, working out of Leith, Scotland near Edinburgh.
     
    The model is primarily made from basswood; sails are paper.  A complete build-log can be found at  https://modelshipworld.com/topic/27283-fifie-by-gbmodeler-scale-148-typical-late-1800s-scottish-herring-drifter/?tab=comments#comment-784151
     
     
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  7. 1800s Galway Hooker by Gbmodeler

    Galway Hooker by Gbmodeler - 1:48 scale - a small Irish fishing boat from the late 1800s
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  8. Barco Catalan, Mediterranean Fishing Boat

    1:48 scale model of a typical 9-meter fishing boat from the late 1800s out of Barcelona, Spain.  Constructed of primarily basswood, with paper sails.
     
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  9. Fishing Sloop Bretagne, 1908

    1:48 scale plank-on-bulkhead model of a 12-meter (40 foot) French boat used for fishing and lobstering out of Camaret, France.  Hundreds of these boats were built from the late 1800s to the mid 1900s.  The real Bretagne (pronounced Brittany) CM1697 was built in 1908, and was a boat of this type.  Although its general dimensions were recorded, it appears that no photographs or plans of the Bretagne exit.  The model is primarily made of basswood, with paper sails.
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  10. Brazzera, 1908

    1:48 Scale, Italian 10-meter boat used for fishing and cabotage (freight and passenger service) in the Adriatic, circa 1908.
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  11. Chinese Junk (Fictional)

    This is a scratch-built model in 1:98 scale of a fictional Chinese Junk.  Basswood planking over solid hull with cloth sails.  Built this for my wife several years ago, but never did a "photo shoot."
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